„Ver­bo(ten)“ – Per­for­mance für Stim­me und Me­ga­phon

Ver­bo

Dort ist eine im­ma­nen­te Po­li­tik, die dem Kör­per in­ne­wohnt

 

Vis­ze­ra­le Er­fah­rung

Stim­me und Me­ga­fon.

Ver­schmol­zen.

Spra­che, Bil­der, Klang und Kör­per.

Se­mio-ka­pi­ta­lis­tisch zer­stört.

Der Kör­per, be­freit vom For­ma­lis­mus, zuckt krampf­ar­tig.

Kar­the­se.?!

Hand­lung ohne Hand­lung. Verb, das nicht zur Spra­che wird.

Ein Kör­per.

 

“the body and its powers—the power to act, to trans­form its­elf and the body as a li­mit on ex­ploi­ta­ti­on. […]

In our time, mo­dels for the body are the com­pu­ter and the ge­ne­tic code, craf­ting a de­ma­te­ria­li­zed, dis­ag­gre­ga­ted body, ima­gi­ned as a con­glo­me­ra­te of cells and ge­nes, each with their own pro­gram, un­con­cer­ned with the rest and the good of the body as a who­le. […] the neo­li­be­ral con­cep­ti­on of life, whe­re mar­ket do­mi­nan­ce turns against not only group so­li­da­ri­ty but so­li­da­ri­ty wi­t­hin our­sel­ves. […] In fact, our body sca­res us, and we do not lis­ten to it. […] Our strugg­le then must be­gin with the re­ap­pro­pria­ti­on of our body, the reva­lua­ti­on and re­dis­co­very of its ca­pa­ci­ty for re­sis­tan­ce, and ex­pan­si­on and ce­le­bra­ti­on of its powers, in­di­vi­du­al and collec­tive.

[…] Our bo­dies have rea­sons that we need to learn, re­dis­co­ver, re­invent. We need to lis­ten to their lan­guage as the path to our health and he­aling, as we need to lis­ten to the lan­guage and rhythms of the na­tu­ral world as the path to the health and he­aling of the earth. Sin­ce the power to be af­fec­ted and to ef­fect, to be mo­ved and to move, a ca­pa­ci­ty that is in­de­st­ruc­tible, ex­hausted only with de­ath, is con­sti­tu­ti­ve of the body, the­re is an im­ma­nent po­li­tics re­si­ding in it: the ca­pa­ci­ty to trans­form its­elf, others, and chan­ge the world.” 

SIL­VIA FE­DE­RI­CI, Bey­ond the pe­ri­phe­ry of the skin